Open Source Community Growth Manager

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 125,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

AWS is seeking an Open Source Community Manager for Kiro Crew to bridge external developers with the internal product team. You’ll shape community strategy, publish content, gather feedback, and coordinate with engineering, product, and DevRel to grow an engaged contributor base.

The role emphasizes building pipelines, organizing events, and representing the project in public channels and at meetups, hackathons, and conferences, while ensuring alignment with AWS open source goals.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional non-internship marketing experience.
• Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements.
• Experience with Excel or Tableau (data manipulation, macros, charts and pivot tables)
• Experience building, executing and scaling cross-functional marketing programs
• Experience communicating results to senior leadership
• Experience creating and executing integrated marketing lead generation campaigns using tactics that include live or virtual events, webinars, email, lead nurture programs, and CRM/sales insights
• Experience with Salesforce and Tableau

Responsibilities

• Run the community day to day. Triage issues, moderate channels, answer and route questions, keep response times low.
• Build the newcomer-to-contributor pipeline. Design welcome flows, starter docs, good first issues, and mentorship. Shepherd PRs to merge, grow repeat contributors into trusted reviewers, and recognize top members through a champions program.
• Run recurring rituals. Community calls, office hours, AMAs, and challenges that turn visitors into regulars.
• Create content and represent the project. Publish blogs, tutorials, and samples. Show up at meetups, hackathons, and conferences with hands-on workshops.
• Amplify releases. Partner with engineering and DevRel to turn changelogs into launch stories across community channels and social.
• Drive audience growth. Identify channels that reach the right developers, run experiments, measure what brings contributors who stay, and double down on what works. Build ecosystem relationships with adjacent tools and frameworks.
• Be the community's voice inside AWS. Bring developer pain points and opportunities into roadmap conversations. Partner with PMM to keep positioning grounded in how developers actually talk about the tool.
• Set the strategy. Define community health metrics and evolve the playbook as the project grows.

Skills

Marketing experience

Data driven

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership communication

Tools

Excel

Tableau

Job description

AWS is seeking an Open Source Community Manager for Kiro Crew to bridge external developers with the internal product team. You’ll shape community strategy, publish content, gather feedback, and coordinate with engineering, product, and DevRel to grow an engaged contributor base.

The role emphasizes building pipelines, organizing events, and representing the project in public channels and at meetups, hackathons, and conferences, while ensuring alignment with AWS open source goals.